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A percentage! What splendid words they have; they are so

scientific, so consolatory.... Once you've said 'percentage'

there's nothing more to worry about. If we had any other word...

maybe we might feel more uneasy.... But what if Dounia were one

of the percentage! Of another one if not that one?

"But where am I going?" he thought suddenly. "Strange, I came out

for something. As soon as I had read the letter I came out.... I

was going to Vassilyevsky Ostrov, to Razumihin. That's what it

was... now I remember. What for, though? And what put the idea of

going to Razumihin into my head just now? That's curious."